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Elite is 40 years old, and I still have no idea what the fuss is about because I have never been able to get past the first task of landing the spaceship in the space...
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Every time I buy something from eBay, I become more convinced that we need to teach effective packaging in schools, because the average person is terrible at it. Today, I received a box swaddled like a...
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I swapped out the nylgut strings on my tenor #ukulele in favour of fluorocarbon, and it sounds much livelier. That was exactly what I was hoping for, so I'm delighted!
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Week 159: Synthetic entrailshttps://po-ru.com/2024/01/22/week-159-synthetic-entrails#weeknotes
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At what, composing accessible emails that don't rely on spy images? Because if so, I'm going to vote for "poorly".
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Made nattÅ for the first time, using a yoghurt maker (bought specially for the purpose). It's a great success!
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Next time I encounter someone claiming the inherent superiority of products made in the USA (usually in comparison to things made in Asia) it will be hard to resist the temptation to reply with just...
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No vegan haggis in the Greenwich Waitrose, today of all days. It's not even sold out: it appears that they've stopped selling all kinds of haggis, and the space where they were is now full of...
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I picked up my acoustic guitar, started playing Wasted Years by Iron Maiden, made it more strummy, threw in some spicier extensions and a few passing chords, and suddenly found myself playing what...
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Good news! I have discovered the UK Department for Transport publication "Guidance on the Use of Tactile Paving Surfaces" and now I'm going to become a thorn in the side of local councils (especially...
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Current status: replacing a jenga tower of extensively stubbed "tests" with something that actually tests the implementation in a meaningful way.
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Week 160: Infinite nattÅhttps://po-ru.com/2024/01/31/week-160-infinite-natto#weeknotes
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UKPol, cryptocurrency bollocksJust when I thought it was impossible to have less respect for George Osborne, he goes and gets a job at...
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I have found the worst track on Bandcamp. I don't suggest giving them $1 tomorrow, today, or any other day.https://personalloanoffers.bandcamp.com/track/personal-loan-offers
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CircleCI have splashed developer hours on reimplementing text rendering in a canvas element, with the result that the scroll-within-scroll behaviour is even more shonky and the Linux text selection...
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Has anyone made the "How do you know that someone has an Arm-based CPU in their MacBook?" joke yet?
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In order not to feel left out, I might have to start dropping similar details into conversations. "This takes ages to run on my i5-7300U ThinkPad."
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I have made it through the hell of St Pancras passport check and I'm waiting for my train to Brussels with a cup of peppermint tea. #FOSDEM#FOSDEM2024
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So far today at #FOSDEM I have attended a talk on COBOL, and I'm waiting for one on Plan 9 to start. Always on the bleeding edge of technology, me. #FOSDEM2024
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#FOSDEM people, please take your backpacks off your backs when you're on a crowded bus.
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